Post-election thingness
Nov. 8th, 2008 06:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebratqueenToday has been a nice fall day, with rain and relaxing. My week was insanely busy with post-election squee and a HUGE project that had me staying late on Thursday. So do a whole bunch of nothing today has been nice.
I'm sure by now you've seen Change.gov, which is oh so shiny and reminds me of things like yes, we are going to have a president who doesn't try to define birth control as abortion. (It's a slow process of realizing all the awesome, lemme tell you. I'll be walking along, doing my thing, and then go "Oh my GOD he had an entire mention of SUPPORTING THE ARTS!" There's just too much awesome to take in at once.)
Apparently some Republicans got together and did their reply to Change.gov, which is Rebuild the Party. Based on the list of people working on this it doesn't seem to be an official Republican Party thing so much as a thing made by Republicans. Which is good because if this was an official reply to Change.gov I think my suggestion to them would be "You can start rebuiilding your party by understanding how what you have here is in NO WAY a real response to what Change.gov represents. And until you get that you will be going nowhere fast."
Semi-related to this, I have an honest question though it may sound rhetorical. You know all the folks who said it was unAmerican to criticize Dubya and the current administration because that's the office of the President and "real" Americans do not disrespect it? What are they going to do when Obama's in charge? I mean it's safe to say he'll be doing things they don't agree with, since they didn't vote for him. Will they not say anything? Will they finally understand our point of view? Or will they find some way of saying that Obama's not the real president without ever understanding how their reactions relate to ouros?
Again: I'm not being rhetorical or snarky with this. I'm actually curious to see how that pans out as the years go on.
I'm sure by now you've seen Change.gov, which is oh so shiny and reminds me of things like yes, we are going to have a president who doesn't try to define birth control as abortion. (It's a slow process of realizing all the awesome, lemme tell you. I'll be walking along, doing my thing, and then go "Oh my GOD he had an entire mention of SUPPORTING THE ARTS!" There's just too much awesome to take in at once.)
Apparently some Republicans got together and did their reply to Change.gov, which is Rebuild the Party. Based on the list of people working on this it doesn't seem to be an official Republican Party thing so much as a thing made by Republicans. Which is good because if this was an official reply to Change.gov I think my suggestion to them would be "You can start rebuiilding your party by understanding how what you have here is in NO WAY a real response to what Change.gov represents. And until you get that you will be going nowhere fast."
Semi-related to this, I have an honest question though it may sound rhetorical. You know all the folks who said it was unAmerican to criticize Dubya and the current administration because that's the office of the President and "real" Americans do not disrespect it? What are they going to do when Obama's in charge? I mean it's safe to say he'll be doing things they don't agree with, since they didn't vote for him. Will they not say anything? Will they finally understand our point of view? Or will they find some way of saying that Obama's not the real president without ever understanding how their reactions relate to ouros?
Again: I'm not being rhetorical or snarky with this. I'm actually curious to see how that pans out as the years go on.
